RE: Chess problem 53 / Schachaufgabe 53
I am not good at chess (This does not stop me from playing my spouse and losing terribly) - and my ability to think several steps ahead in almost all capacities is substantially limited.
But, I feel like moving the black pawn on F4 to F3 basically ensures a draw.
If the bishop takes your pawn, you take the bishop, white takes the second pawn - then the board is two pawns and a king each, and that seems like draw territory with the right pawns trapped where they are.
If the white pawn takes your pawn, you move the other pawn to g3. That forces the bishop to block g2 to avoid a black queens, which holds the bishop in stasis and effectively turns the board into the two pawns and king each, especially as your king is safe on brown squares.
All the other possible moves by white in response seem like obvious f*#k ups...
Now that I've spilled the guts of my poorly informed guess out into the blockchain forever, I await knowledge of the super obvious thing I'm missing :)
OK, let's see. You suggest:
What about if white plays Ke3 (followed by f4, Kf3) now to catch the black pawn? :)
If after
No, I mean Ke3 in the end:
haha - I totally forgot to even consider the king. I'll show myself out. :)